Wanda Nowicka

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Wanda Nowicka (2014)

Wanda Hanna Nowicka (born November 21, 1956 in Lublin ) is a Polish activist and politician, member of the Polish parliament during the 7th (2011–2015) and 9th legislative periods (2019–2023). She served from November 8, 2011 to November 11, 2015 as Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.

Life

She was born in Lublin, attended the University of Warsaw . with a degree in classical philology and worked from 1985 to 1993 as a teacher of Latin and English. In 1990 Nowicka co-founded Neutrum, the Association for State Neutrality, an organization that campaigns for the separation of church and state in public life in Poland. In 1991 she was one of the co-founders of the Federation for Women and Family Planning, a non-governmental organization that forms an alliance of Neuter and four other organizations. She led the 1991 federation as president for twenty years. In 2011 she resigned after being elected to the Sejm. In the 9th legislative period of the Sejm, she is the chairwoman of the Parliamentary Committee on National and Ethnic Minorities and the founder and chairwoman of the Parliamentary Group on Women's Rights.

Protection of women's rights - international activities

Nowicka co-founded the Polish Committee of NGOs - Beijing 1995, which organized the active participation of Polish activists in the famous United Nations Conference in Beijing, also known as the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW). The activities of the committee included the presentation of the NGO report on the situation of women in Poland. At this UN conference Nowicka made the well-known declaration of the non-region on behalf of the women from Central and Eastern Europe. In 1999 she co-founded and first coordinator of ASTRA (Central and Eastern European Women's Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights). From 1995 to 2002 she was an expert at the World Health Organization and a member of its Gender Advisory Panel. She was a major member of the Congress of Polish Women and a board member of the Congress of Women, which is the operational body of this movement. She spoke on numerous occasions at international forums (UN, EU, Harvard University, Columbia University, New School, CUNY, University of California) on women's and human rights. She has written numerous reports for the UN and the European Union on human rights violations, including women's rights.

In 2003 Nowicka invited the Women on Waves Organization to Poland. Its members anchored on their ship “Langenort” for two weeks in the Polish coastal town of Władysławowo in order to organize campaigns together with Polish women activists to fight the repression of the anti-abortion law in Poland and to enable abortions in the early stages of pregnancy in extraterritorial waters. The actions were attacked by right-wing extremist nationalist groups such as All Polish Youth and the League of Polish Families. These attempted to intimidate women in order to prevent them from boarding the ship.

Activity in Polish Politics

Wanda Nowicka has allied itself politically with various parties, but remained unbound except for a brief membership in the solidarity movement in the years 1980-1981. After 1989 she got involved in political life and worked with left groups, but remained independent. She took part in parliamentary elections several times without success. She ran off the Workers Solidarity List for the Sejm in 1991 and on behalf of the Workers' Union for the Senate seat in 1997, where she received 190,000 votes. In 1998-2002, on the recommendation of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), she was elected to the first Mazovian regional assembly with the SLD. In the 2011 parliamentary elections, she allied herself with the Palikot movement and won a parliamentary seat with 7065 votes. On November 8, 2011 she was elected deputy Sejm spokeswoman for the 7th term in office. In February 2013 she left the Palikot movement and remained an independent member of the Sejm until her term of office ended. In 2014 she ran with the Europa Plus coalition for the European Parliament in the Warsaw district and received 7,479 votes (second result), but Europa Plus did not win any seats in these elections. On February 21, 2015, she announced her participation in the presidential election on behalf of the Polish Labor Party. Her candidacy was supported by four political parties, that is, the Polish Left, the Social Democracy of Poland, the Polish Socialist Party and the Union of the Left. She collected 91,000 of the 100,000 signatures required for a successful registration.

In 2015 Nowicka ran for the Sejm with the coalition of the United Left in the Mazovian district. It received 20,503 votes, but the United Left could not exceed the 8% threshold required for a party coalition.

In 2019 she ran for the newly founded Wiosna party of Robert Biedroń unsuccessfully for the European Parliament in the Kujawien-Pomerania district and received 21,993 votes.

In the parliamentary elections in 2019, in which she ran for first place on the list of the Left Alliance in Silesia (29th district), she received 25,767 votes, reaching third place in her constituency and receiving a seat as a member of the 9th term. In the Sejm she was elected chairman of the committee on national and ethnic minorities. She founded the Group for Women's Rights and was appointed to chair it.

Education, teaching activities

She graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in Classical Philology. From 1985-1993 she worked as a teacher of Latin, Greek and English in Warsaw high schools. From 2007-2008 she taught reproductive rights activism with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe in the Faculty of Women's Affairs and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. From 2016-2017 she taught gender studies at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2016-18 she studied bioethics at the University of Warsaw and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Private life

Wanda Nowicka is the daughter of Kazimierz Nowicki, a former prisoner of German National Socialist concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and Irena Witkowska. Her stepfather was Kazimierz Albin, a former prisoner from Auschwitz. She was married to Światoslaw Florian Nowicki and has three sons with him, Florian, Michał and Tymoteusz. Florian was a politician of the Polish Workers' Party and has a doctorate in philosophy, the historian Michał was a well-known left-wing activist when he was a student, and the former kickboxer Tymoteusz twice won the world championship in kickboxing.

Nowicka explains her knowledge of the classical languages ​​(Latin, Greek) and English, Russian and French as well as the ability to communicate in German and Italian.

Decorations and awards

Wanda Nowicka became an honorary citizen of the city of Spartanburg in Southern California in 1992. Two years later she was the winner of the Polish edition of the "Woman from Europe" competition. In 2000 she received the Rainbow Laurel Prize. In 2005 she received an award of £ 100,000 for outstanding leadership from the Sigrid Rausing Foundation for the ASTRA network (the award was used for the film “Breaking Silence”). In 2008 she won the Exile University Prize of the New School for Social Research in New York in recognition of her contribution to the fight for women's rights in Poland and internationally. For her active support of international cooperation and the chairmanship of the Polish-Greek parliamentary group, the government of the Hellenic Republic awarded her the Second Class Honorary Order of Grand Commander.

List of publications

  • 1994 Nowicka, W . "Two Steps Back: Poland's New Abortion Law." Journal of Women's History 5 (3): 151-55. John Hopkins University Press.
  • 1995 Coliver, S., and Nowicka W . , . "Poland." In The Right to Know: Human Rights and Access to Reproductive Health Information . University of Pennsylvania Press. Pp. 268-284.
  • 1996 Nowicka, W . "The effects of the anti-abortion law." EntreNous , December 1996, Copenhagen.
  • 1996 Nowicka, W. “Roman Catholic fundamentalism against women's reproductive rights in Poland.” Reproductive Health Matters , 4 (8): 21-29.
  • 1996 Nowicka, W. "Beijing '95 - A Chance That Could Be Missed, in Voices of Women, Moving Forward with Dignity and Wholeness." The Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo.
  • 1996 Nowicka, W. "More Restrictive in Life than on Paper." Conscience , 17 (2) (Summer), Washington.
  • 1997 Nowicka, W. “ Ban on Abortion. Why? " and "Foundation of the Law in Ana's Land." In Sisterhood in Eastern Europe , ed. Tanya Renne. Westview Press: Division of Harper Collins Publishers.
  • 1998 Nowicka, W. “Report to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights” (Situation of Women, esp. Reproductive Health and Rights). Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw.
  • 1998 Nowicka, W. " Factors Affecting Women's Health in Eastern and Central Europe with particular emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Mental, Environmental and Reproductive Health." Paper for Expert Meeting on Women and Health, Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into Health Sector, Tunis.
  • 1998 Nowicka, W. " Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector." ENTRE NOUS, WHO, Copenhagen, Winter 1998, No 40-41.
  • 1999 Nowicka, W. "Shadow Report on Gender Discrimination for the UN Human Rights Committee." Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw.
  • 1999 Nowicka, W . "Advocating and Monitoring the Implementation of the ICPD Program of Action in Poland." Development 42 (1): 84-85.
  • 1999 Nowicka, W . "Advocating and monitoring the implementation of the ICPD Program of Action in Poland: the benefits of NGO reporting to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights." Medical Law Journal 18 (2-3): 295-303.
  • 2000 Nowicka, W. , Ed. “The Anti-abortion Law in Poland: Its Functioning, Social Effects and Behaviors Report.” Warsaw, Federation for Women and Family Planning.
  • 2000 Nowicka, W. , And E. Zielińska. 2000. "Medical Community's Perspectives on Abortion." In Report of the Federation 2000, 1-34. http // www.federa.org.pl.
  • 2001 Nowicka, W . "Struggles for and against Legal Abortion in Poland." In Advocating for Abortion Access , edited by B. Klugman, and D. Budlender, 226-27. Johannesburg: Women's Health Project.
  • 2001 Nowicka, W. , And F. Girard. "Clear and Compelling Evidence: The Polish Tribunal on Abortion Rights." Reproductive Health Matters 10 (19): 22-30.
  • 2002 Nowicka, W. "Shadow Report to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights." Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw.
  • 2003 Nowicka, W . "Solidarity over Borders." Report on Women on Waves in Poland, Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw [in Polish] [Solidarność kobiet ponad granicami, Kronika wydarzeń Władysławowo 21 czerwca-4 lipca 2003].
  • 2004 Nowicka, W . "Shadow Report on Gender Discrimination in the area of ​​Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights." Prepared for the UN Human Rights Committee.
  • 2004 Nowicka, W. “Poland - The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Poland.” In SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines , edited by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky and Robert Sember. Publisher: Sexuality Policy Watch. Pp. 167-196.
  • 2007 Nowicka, W. “Prawa Reprodukcyjne w Polsce [Reproductive Rights in Poland].” in Czarna Księga Kobiet WAB, Warsaw.
  • 2007 Nowicka, W, and M. Pochec. "Shadow Report on Women in Poland." Prepared for the UN Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • 2008 Nowicka, W., ( ed.) “Reproductive Rights in Poland, Report,” Federation for Women and Family Planning, Warsaw.
  • 2008 “The Anti-Abortion Act in Poland - The Legal and Actual State.” In Reproductive Rights in Poland: The Effects of the anti-abortion law in Poland, Report , Nowicka W . (ed.) 17-44. Warsaw: Federation for Women and Family Planning.
  • 2011 Nowicka W., Polskie zmagania o aborcję w Drogi Równości (red B. Maciejewska, K.Kądziela, Z.Dąbrowska), Fundacja Przestrzenie Dialogu (Gdańsk 2011).
  • 2011 Nowicka, W. "Sexual and Reproductive Rights and the Human Rights Agenda: Controversial and Contested." Reproductive Health Matters 19 (38): 119-28.
  • 2011 Nowicka W., Odzyskać ciało, odzyskać godność w A jak hipokryzja (red. Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez), Wyd. O Matko! (Warszawa 2011).
  • 2018 Nowicka, W . Naruszenie praw reprodukcyjnych jako forma tortur w Prawo i Medycyna, No. 4/2017 pp. 148-168.
  • 2019 Wanda Nowicka & Anna C. Zielinska, Entre l'idéologie et l'économie: les politiques de natalité en Europe Centrale in Mouvements des idées et des luttes (Oct. 2019) http://mouvements.info/entre-lideologie-et -leconomie-les-politiques-de-natalite-en-europe-centrale /? fbclid = IwAR1H0yBhZSaO50ihSWosjueEl4hSYuwEweN_I9Dj8Ch4rPIzoDRk4beElNI
  • 2019 Nowicka, W. Les droits des femmes à l'épreuve du Sacré en Pologne in L'Idée Libre, Revue fondée en 1911, La Loi et le Sacré (Dec. 2019), ed. Wafa Tamzini.
  • 2019 Nowicka, W. J Regulska . Book Chapter “ Repressive Policies and Women's Reproductive Choices in Poland: The Case of State Violence Against Women” in Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century (eds. Zaleski K., Enrile. A., Weiss EL, and Wang X., Oxford University Press. (To be out in November)

Web links

Commons : Wanda Nowicka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Website of the Sejm, Lista posłów - Wanda Nowicka , accessed on November 13, 2011
  2. ↑ Source: [1] Wanda Nowicka "website of the Polish Sejm, accessed on May 24, 2020
  3. ↑ Hloušek, Vít. The Rise of Entrepreneurial Parties in European Politics. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-41916-5
  4. ↑ krytykapolityczna.pl, Wanda Nowicka kandydatką Polskiej Partii Pracy na prezydentkę Warszawy , October 9, 2006
  5. ↑ a b TVN24, Kim jest wicemarszałek od Palikota? , November 9, 2011
  6. ↑ Mishtal, Joanna ,: The politics of morality: the church, the state, and reproductive rights in post-socialist Poland . Athens, Ohio, ISBN 978-0-8214-4517-4 .
  7. ^ Federation for Women and Family Planning - Federation for Women and Family Planning. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (UK English).
  8. ↑ Komisja Mniejszości Narodowych i Etnicznych. In: Wanda Nowicka. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (pl-PL).
  9. ^ Parlamentarny Zespół Praw Kobiet. In: Wanda Nowicka. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (pl-PL).
  10. ^ Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  11. ^ Polish Committee of NGOs - Bejing 1995: The situation of Women in Poland . ( karat.org [PDF]).
  12. ↑ Molony, Barbara; Nelson, Jennifer: Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories . ( google.pl ).
  13. ↑ Commitments made twenty years ago have not been achieved yet. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  14. ^ ASTRA - ASTRA - Central and Eastern European Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (UK English).
  15. ↑ Kramarae, Cheris; Spender, Dale: Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. Retrieved on August 23, 2020 (English).
  16. ^ Wanda Nowicka: Report. (PDF) Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
  17. ↑ STER: Solidarity kobiet ponad granicami. (PDF) Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
  18. ^ Peter S. Green: A Rocky Polish Landfall For a Dutch Abortion Boat . In: The New York Times . June 24, 2003, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 15, 2020]).
  19. ↑ lewica.pl, Wanda Nowicka: A jednak Palikot , September 30, 2011
  20. ↑ Monitor Polski, Obwieszczenie Państwowej Komisji Wyborczej z dnia 25 września 1997 r. , No. 64 poz. 621, p. 1378. Online
  21. ↑ Mazovia Voivodeship website, Kadencja I , accessed on November 13, 2011
  22. ↑ wybory 2011. Nowicka "Dwójka" Ruchu Palikota w Warszawie. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (Polish).
  23. ↑ Wanda Nowicka. Radykalna dyplomatka. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (Polish).
  24. ↑ Wybory prezydenckie. Wanda Nowicka: Więcej kobiet w polityce to więcej demokracji. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (Polish).
  25. ↑ Wyborcza.pl. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  26. ↑ WPROST.pl: wybory do PE. Kto dostał się do europarlamentu z okręgu nr 2 (kujawsko-pomorskie)? May 26, 2019, accessed July 15, 2020 (Polish).
  27. ↑ Wybory do Parlamentu Europejskiego 2019. Accessed July 15, 2020 (Polish).
  28. ↑ Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2019 r. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (Polish).
  29. ↑ Wybrano nowych przewodniczących komisji sejmowych. Zobacz, kim są. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  30. ^ Parlamentarny Zespół Praw Kobiet. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Wanda Nowicka. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (pl-PL).
  32. ↑ Wanda Nowicka. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (pl-PL).
  33. ↑ Wanda Nowicka's blog, Autorka , accessed on May 24, 2020
  34. ↑ Never urodziłam się liderką. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (Polish).
  35. ↑ ASTRA NETWORK online. (PDF) Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  36. ^ The New School 66 West 12th Street New York, Ny 10011: POLAND, EUROPE, WOMEN: Wanda Nowicka on New Forms of Political Engagement, March 12 at 6:30 pm. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (American English).
  37. ^ The New School 66 West 12th Street New York, Ny 10011: POLAND, EUROPE, WOMEN: Wanda Nowicka on New Forms of Political Engagement, March 12 at 6:30 pm. Retrieved July 15, 2020 (American English).
  38. ↑ Anna Tylec: Wanda Nowicka. July 27, 2017, accessed July 15, 2020 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Nowicka, Wanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nowicka, Wanda Hanna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician (Ruch Palikota), member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lublin